Re: centos] CentOS 4 with MySQL 4.1

[tengel at fluid.com (Troy Engel)]

R P Herrold wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Troy Engel wrote:
> 
>> Also install 'sysstat' (comes prepackaged with all modern 
>> RedHat/CentOS), which is a rewrite of the venerable sa* tools from 
> 
> Dag's dstat is a even later, and perhaps friendlier implementation.

While not it any way knocking dstat, it's not the same thing as sar; sar 
uses two collection agents (sa1, sa2) to record historic data over 
intervals to be later interpreted. dstat is a realtime oriented 
diagnostic tool, not historic. They are best used together, as they have 
two seperate concepts in mind - I think it's better to only compare 
dstat with the specific realtime functionality of sar.

-te

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